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  2. Doomsday Clock - Wikipedia

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    Doomsday Clock. The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. [1] Maintained since 1947, the Clock is a metaphor, not a prediction, for threats to humanity from unchecked scientific and technological advances.

  3. Time bomb - Wikipedia

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    A time bomb (or a timebomb, time-bomb) is a bomb whose detonation is triggered by a timer. The use or attempted use of time bombs has been for various purposes including insurance fraud, terrorism, assassination, sabotage and warfare. They are a frequent plot device in thriller and action films as they offer a way of imparting a dramatic sense ...

  4. Pencil detonator - Wikipedia

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    Pencil detonator. A pencil detonator or time pencil is a time fuze designed to be connected to a detonator or short length of safety fuse. They are about the same size and shape as a pencil, hence the name. They were introduced during World War II and developed at Aston House, Hertfordshire, UK.

  5. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia

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    Total killed (by end of 1945): 150,000–246,000. On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.

  6. Bridge and torch problem - Wikipedia

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    Bridge and torch problem. The bridge and torch problem (also known as The Midnight Train[1] and Dangerous crossing[2]) is a logic puzzle that deals with four people, a bridge and a torch. It is in the category of river crossing puzzles, where a number of objects must move across a river, with some constraints. [3]

  7. Ticking time bomb scenario - Wikipedia

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    The "ticking time bomb scenario" is subject of the drama The Dershowitz Protocol by Canadian author Robert Fothergill. In that play, the American government has established a protocol of "intensified interrogation" for terrorist suspects which requires participation of the FBI, CIA and the Department of Justice.

  8. Timeline of nuclear weapons development - Wikipedia

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    1941 – June – President Roosevelt forms the Office of Scientific Research and Development under Vannevar Bush. 1941 – June 15 – The MAUD Committee approves a report that a uranium bomb could be built. 1941 – June 22 – Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union, begins.

  9. Pencil bomb attacks - Wikipedia

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    The pencil bomb attacks were used in multiple acts of state-sponsored terrorism [citation needed] by Imperial Germany during World War I. The pencil bombs were a type of incendiary time bomb. It was designed by German chemist Walter Scheele and used by German field agent Captain Franz von Rintelen of the intelligence wing of the German Imperial ...

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